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eastward
[ eest-werd ]
adverb
- Also eastwards. toward the east.
adjective
- moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the east.
noun
- the eastward part, direction, or point.
eastward
/ ˈiːstwəd /
adjective
- situated or directed towards the east
adverb
- a variant of eastwards
noun
- the eastward part, direction, etc
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Derived Forms
- ˈeastwardly, adverbadjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Strong currents and winds, however, mean any debris could be drifting up to 31 miles a day eastward, away from the impact zone.
To try to counter the Russian military build-up, Kiev has redeployed more forces eastward.
From this point of view, the European mentality is shifting eastward.
She was 31 when she married Smith and traveled eastward with him to Romania.
She squinted up and down 55th before someone yelled directions, and she walked eastward to find it.
But this port (to obviate misunderstanding) is not on the Ocean lying eastward, but on that gulf which I have called French bay.
Behind that hill, on the eastward ridge, a great ball is glowing, fiery red.
As the evening approached the weather clouded in and threatened us with another squall from the eastward.
There is a run of fresh water in the bay to the eastward of the low sandy point, but it was not thought to be a durable stream.
Through the pines on the eastward ridge the moon was climbing, and now the white road stretched away before me.
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